Bad economics and immoral the gender pay gap has been proven false time and again. But those who believe in government and authority have lost empathy and therefore want everyone to be coerced into paying for what they want funded. That is why they clamber to government if they know it or not. It’s a bad belief that hasn’t solved one problem yet and it won’t. If you get paid more than you earn than its more expensive to hire employees and cost of living will go up along with taxes. It’s a Ponzi scheme. That’s all government is anyway. Those in government are con artists. They won’t be part of any real solution or else people will stop viewing them as necessary.